Course Descriptions

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Financial Reform

This student-focused research seminar will provide students with the
opportunity to conduct research on the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform
and Consumer Protection Act of 2010, which enacted sweeping reforms to
financial regulation. Topics include regulation and supervision of
systemically important financial institutions and markets, resolution
of failing firms, derivatives regulation, the shadow banking system,
consumer and investor protection, and other matters. Students will
also be exposed to real-world issues in legislative drafting, the
legislative process, bureaucratic "turf" battles, and rule-making and
implementation. Students will be expected to be active participants in
class and to write a series of short papers on selected topics during
the term or, with the permission of the instructor, to write a longer
research paper due at the end of the term. Students are strongly
encouraged, but not required, to take Financial Regulation concurrently, or to have taken Financial Regulation in a prior semester.